Mohammed Odeh

Mohammed Odeh (1 March 1965-) was a Palestinian al-Qaeda terrorist who was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the 1998 United States embassy bombings.

Biography
Mohammed Odeh was born in Tabouk, Saudi Arabia in 1965 to a family of Palestinian refugees, and he became an al-Qaeda member. In March 1993, Saif al-Adel ordered him to Somalia to train tribes in fighting, and he trained forces loyal to Mohamed Farrah Aidid and al-Itihaad al-Islamiya fighters. In 1994, he was sent to Mombasa, Kenya by Mohammed Atef, who gave him money to start a fishing business. He became an engineer with joing Kenyan and Jordanian citizenship, and he was among the seven men who had plotted the 1998 United States embassy bombings. He was arrested while attempting to fly from Nairobi to Karachi, Pakistan, and he was extradited to the United States to serve a life sentence at the ADX Florence supermax prison.